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John Milton
442 quotes
“Oft times nothing profits more Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right Well manag'd.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Those graceful acts, Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My unpremeditated verse.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“At shut of evening flowers.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So gloz'd the tempter.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Left that command Sole daughter of his voice.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A pillar'd shade High overarch'd, and echoing walks between.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap!”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?--thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well: how long or short permit to heaven.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A bevy of fair women.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The brazen throat of war.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Elephants endors'd with towers.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Syene, and where the shadow both way falls, Meroe, Nilotic isle.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath'd.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Socrates . . . Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Till morning fair Came forth with pilgrim steps in amice gray.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ran on embattled armies clad in iron, And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But who is this, what thing of sea or land,-- Female of sex it seems,-- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source